Darren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 08:36:09 -0400:
> <Snipped a large chunk of Duncan bragging about his system ;-)> More like complaining. 1.6 GHz (the clock rate of Opteron X42s) doesn't go as far as it used to, and when the CPU-bound app is single-threaded, so the second CPU can't help, it REALLY drags! (Of course, the problem certainly appeared dramatically worse to me than most since I'm used to the peppy performance of a dual-CPU system under ordinary conditions, and the dual-cpu /did/ still help there as at least I could continue doing other things while that bogged, an option a single CPU/core system user wouldn't have had. It would and did look bad to others as well tho. It was just so /dramatically/ bad for me... I had forgotten what it was like, and it came out in my complaints on the thread.) His several year old system might actually be faster than my several-year-old CPU (it certainly is in clockcycles, 1.8 GHz vs 1.6) under those conditions. I was pointing out that mine is admittedly pretty high class in other areas, but in that one, he /may/ have me beat! <grumble mumble grumble> > Duncan, > > Does this bug look like the same issue you are having when downloading a > large number of smaller attachments? > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353317 It was certainly part of it. However, the performance patches added to 0.110 should eliminate the biggest problem. I haven't actually tested yet as I just finished first-round processing the 24K of single-part messages I downloaded the other day, last nite. It was that 24K messages download that triggered the thread. I should get back to testing a small-posts group later this week, but I've got big-posts groups on the todo list for today. Until I actually see how much better the 0.110 patches are, I can't honestly say how much of a slowdown the other is causing. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
